Rooms With a View: 10 NYC Apartments Directly Across From Parks

What better place to start our tour of NYC apartments with a view than 19 glorious floors above Central Park? This duplex gem is in the legendary Beresford, and it is basically the good life personified. This kind of price point buys you more than just views: There’s a library, a formal dining room, and a butler’s pantry in addition to the 5 bedrooms, 4 baths, and 600 square foot terrace. Ahhhh!

Central Park North offers views as spectacular as Central Park West, at a fraction of the price. Not that $3 million is cheap by any means, but it’s a $20 million discount over the Beresford, and look at these windows! Gazing all the way down the entire length of the park while you eat your breakfast every morning would sure make quarantine more enjoyable.

A Riverside Drive address means having not just beautiful Riverside Park at your doorstep, but the Hudson as well. And this relatively affordable 1-bedroom’s west-facing windows mean trees, sky, and water will keep you company both by day in the living room and by night in the bedroom. Get ready to watch the sunset from the comfort of your couch!

Taking a swing into Brooklyn, the magic of this Prospect Park West home is almost overwhelming. It’s hard to believe this is in NYC, isn’t it? The storybook outside is countered by a hyper-chic, ultra-modern interior, though, with six park-facing windows spread across four floors. And if you want more than just views, there’s also a front garden, a back garden, and a planted roof deck.

Fancy a triumphal arch right outside your living room? This enormous home on Grand Army Plaza offers all that and more. Designed by superstar architect Richard Meier, the 3,400-square-foot space overlooks the historic park from floor-to-ceiling walls of windows that span the entire length of the apartment, including all four bedrooms.

A million-dollar view for under a million dollars is always a good deal, right? This loftlike 1-bedroom in the mega-complex known as One Brooklyn Bridge Park has great light and open-sky views from super-tall windows. Besides its park setting, this building offers awesome amenities like a screening room, a music room, a high-end gym and yoga studio, and even an outdoor putting green.

A home on Gramercy Park is more than just an NYC apartment with a view — it comes with a highly coveted key to the private, gated park itself. That’s enough to make a fancy apartment even fancier, and this one does not disappoint with its panoramic picture windows soaking up all that greenery and light. Another extra-fancy perk: room service and housekeeping from the adjacent Gramercy Park Hotel.

This full-service co-op designed by Rosario Candela sits directly on Carl Schurz Park, also known as the home of Gracie Mansion. It’s even further east than East End Avenue, so park views and river views will be yours from this elegant, expansive home’s countless windows. The massive eat-in kitchen is really spectacular.

Sara D. Roosevelt Park is a long, narrow green space running the length of the Lower East Side, from Houston Street all the way down to Canal Street. This floor-through home in a new-construction condo on the west side of the park is basically 1,600 square feet of luxe living, with treetop views. All in a premium downtown location!

Let’s finish our tour of NYC apartments with a view right back where we started: in the ultimate lap of luxury. Overlooking City Hall Park in lower Manhattan, 2 Park Place is better known as the Woolworth building, and they do not get much more iconic. It was the tallest building in the world from its debut in 1913 until 1930, when it was eclipsed by the Chrysler Building and then the Empire State. The top 30 floors have now been remade into breathtaking residences, and Pavilion A, on the 29th floor, simply must be seen to be believed.